an area of a city where many people of the same race or background live, separately from the rest of the population. Ghettos are often crowded, with bad living conditions. （相同種族或背景人的）聚居區；貧民區 a poor kid growing up in the ghetto 在貧民區長大的窮孩子 The south coast of Spain has become something of a tourist ghetto. 西班牙南部海岸可以說已經成爲旅遊者的聚居區。 He tended to stick to the relative safety of San Francisco’s gay ghetto. 他傾向於堅持舊金山同性戀聚居區的相對安全。 They felt their beliefs made them outsiders, and had developed a ghetto mentality. 他們覺得自己的信仰使他們成爲局外人，並形成了貧民窟心態。 kids from the ghetto 貧民窟的孩子
the area of a town where Jews were forced to live in the past （昔日城鎮中的）猶太人居住區 the Warsaw ghetto 華沙的猶太人居住區
Word Originearly 17th cent.: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’.